Jason,
I've tried to copy the postgres.exe to postmaster.exe.
After running postmaster.exe I get the following message:
FindExec: could not find a postmaster to execute...
postmaster: could not find postmaster to execute...
Any ideas?
gr,
Willem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <Jason(dot)Tishler(at)dothill(dot)com>
To: "W. van den Akker" <wvdakker(at)wilsoft(dot)nl>
Cc: <pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [PORTS] PostgreSQL for NT
> Willem,
>
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:31:12AM +0100, W. van den Akker wrote:
> > Do I have to run Postgres from the Bash-shell?
>
> Since in the standard distribution postmaster is a symlink to postgres,
> I guess that the answer is "yes." There are other games that you could
> play, but...
>
> > I like to run postgres as a service within NT.
>
> Since you want to run PostgreSQL as a NT service, the simplest solution
> is to delete the symlink from postmaster to postgres.exe and copy
> postgres.exe to postmaster.exe. After performing these operations,
> PostgreSQL will be able to run from cmd, as an NT service (if wrapped
> by something like srvany or invoker), and from bash. The only downside
> is a little wasted disk space, but disk space is cheap and getting
> cheaper...
>
> I was actually thinking that may be the standard NT distribution should
not
> contain symlinks for this exact reason. What do others think?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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